Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
One oat mixture, used twice — pressed as a base and crumbled on top. Cut them cold or they fall apart.
- Total time
- 3 hr
- Yield
- Makes 12 bars
Recipes — page 2
40 recipes, newest first. Most are easy dinner recipes sized for a weeknight — thirty to sixty minutes, one or two pans, and ingredients from an ordinary grocery store.
The rest is what goes around dinner: soup recipes for a cold evening, salads and side dishes, desserts, and a few sauces worth keeping in the fridge. Every one has been cooked and written here, with the timings and quantities that actually worked.
Recipes by course
Recipes by cooking method
Cinnamon Roll Protein Shake
Thirty grams of protein that tastes like the middle of a cinnamon bun. Frozen banana does the work, not ice.
- Total time
- 5 min
- Yield
- Makes 1 large shake
Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Three ingredients, eight minutes, six cookies at a time. No flour and no oven to heat.
- Total time
- 18 min
- Yield
- Makes 18 cookies
Creamy Spinach Tortellini Soup
Twenty-five minutes, one pot. The cream goes in off the heat and the tortellini go in last.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Crunch Salad
Six vegetables cut to the same size, feta, toasted seeds and a sharp balsamic vinaigrette. Assembled, not tossed in advance.
- Total time
- 20 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Built in the pan the steak came out of, in the time the steak needs to rest. Ten minutes, five ingredients that matter.
- Total time
- 17 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Chinese Sweet and Sour Sauce
Clear, glossy and sharp enough to cut through fried food. No ketchup, no food coloring, ready in eight minutes.
- Total time
- 13 min
- Yield
- Makes about 1½ cups (350 ml)
Peach Lemonade
Ripe peaches blitzed into fresh lemonade, strained smooth. Nothing from a bottle, ready in ten minutes.
- Total time
- 15 min
- Yield
- Makes about 6 cups (1.5 liters), serves 6
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
A Depression-era cake that stays damp for four days. The mayonnaise is the eggs and the oil, and you will never taste it.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- One 9-inch cake, 12 slices
German Potato Pancakes
Kartoffelpuffer: lacy, deep-golden, crisp to the edge. The trick is wringing the potatoes dry and reclaiming the starch.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Makes 12 pancakes
Homemade Barbecue Sauce
A thick Kansas City-style sauce built on tomato, molasses and smoked paprika. Twenty minutes on the stovetop and it keeps a month.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Makes about 2½ cups (600 ml)
Homemade Eggnog
A cooked custard base, chilled overnight, thick enough to coat a spoon. Nothing like the carton.
- Total time
- 8 hr 30 min
- Yield
- Makes 5 cups (1.2 liters), serves 8
Crockpot Beef and Broccoli
Chuck steak braised until it gives, in a glossy soy and ginger sauce, with broccoli added at the very end so it stays green.
- Total time
- 5 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Air Fryer Fried Chicken
Buttermilk-brined thighs in a craggy seasoned crust, crisp all over in 25 minutes without a pot of hot oil.
- Total time
- 4 hr 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Orzo Pasta Salad
Dressed twice — once warm, once cold — so the seasoning goes through the pasta instead of sitting on it.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, with oats you can still see. The dough rests overnight and it matters.
- Total time
- 12 hr 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 24 cookies